Monday 28 April

• EU Council. Informal meeting of environment ministers (and 29/04 – Warsaw) (see EUROPE 13628/2). See 29/04.
• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA). Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/gj4
• European Parliament. Committee activities (Brussels): – ECON: annual report of the European Central Bank presented by its Vice-President, Luis de Guindos (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/gj2 ). – IMCO: exchange of views with Vice-President Teresa Ribeira (Just and Competitive Transition) on AMD fines and forthcoming Commission initiatives on competitiveness and the future of the internal market (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/gj3 ).
• EU Council, European Parliament, European Commission. Inter institutional negotiations (Brussels). - Trilogue on the package proposals to amend the banks crisis management and deposit insurance (CMDI).
• European Court of Auditors (Luxembourg). Publication of a special report on the EU’s strategy for microchips.

Tuesday 29 April

• EU Council. Informal meeting of environment ministers (and 29/04 – Warsaw) (see EUROPE 13628/2). Two working sessions: – Disinformation on environmental policies: exchange of views on ways to counter disinformation and propaganda targeting European climate and environmental policies. – Adaptation to climate change: the ministers will be briefed on the Polish ‘GreenEvo – Green Technology Accelerator’ programme promoting advanced environmental technologies to speed up adaptation to climate change; they will then debate the objectives of the ‘European Climate Adaptation Plan’ proposed by the European Commission.
• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): – Political and Security Committee (PSC). – Military Committee Working Group (EUMCWG). – Antici Group. Mertens Group. – Working Party on Tax Questions. – Trade Policy Committee (experts – services and investment). – Financial Services Attachés. – Working Party on the United Kingdom. – Justice and Home Affairs Advisers. Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/gj5
• EU Council, European Parliament, European Commission. Inter institutional negotiations (Brussels). - Trilogue on revision of the visa suspension mechanism.
• European Economic and Social Committee. 596th Plenary session (and 30/04 – Brussels). Agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/gj9
• Court of Justice of the EU (Luxembourg). #Judgments: – C-181/23 (Commission v Malta – Citizenship by investment – may a Member State, in return for predetermined payments or investments, grant naturalisation to persons despite the absence of any real link between them and that Member State?). – C-452/23 (Fastned Deutschland – can the deployment of new electric charging points in the service areas of German motorways managed by existing concessionaires be carried out without recourse to a tendering procedure?) – C-453/23 (Prezydent Miasta Mielca – under what conditions does a tax exemption provided for in national law and relating to property tax constitute prohibited State aid within the meaning of Article 107(1) TFEU?). #Conclusions: – C-521/21 (Rzecznik Praw Obywatelskich – Recusal of a common law judge – can a person selected by the current Polish National Council of the Judiciary be regarded as a court “established by law” within the meaning of Union law?).

Wednesday 30 April

• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): – Coreper I. – Coreper II. – Political and Security Committee (PSC). – EU Military Committee (EUMC). – Trade Policy Committee. – Justice and Home Affairs Advisers. – Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/gj6
• European Economic and Social Committee. 596th Plenary session (and 30/04 – Brussels). Agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/gj9
• Court of Justice of the EU (Luxembourg). #Judgments: – C-246/24 (Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Frankfurt am Main - Exporting cash to Russia – can the export of euro banknotes be regarded as necessary for the personal use of a person travelling to Russia where those funds are used to pay for medical treatment?). – C-386/23 (Novel Nutriology – are health claims relating to botanical substances, used for advertising purposes, authorised under the Regulation on nutrition and health claims made on foods, in the situation where the Commission has not yet taken a decision on the inclusion of such claims on the lists referred to in this regulation?)

Friday 2 May

• EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): – Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession to the EU. – Headline Goal Task Force (HTF).